Windows Tips & Tricks – II

Control Panel Applet = Command of RUN

Accessibility = access.cpl

Add New Hardware = hdwwiz.cpl

Add/Remove Programs = appwiz.cpl

Date/Time Properties = timedate.cpl

Display Properties = desk.cpl

FindFast = findfast.cpl

Internet Properties = inetcpl.cpl

Joystick Properties = joy.cpl

Keyboard Properties = main.cpl

Local Users management = nusrmgr.cpl

Microsoft Exchange = mlcfg32.cpl

Microsoft Mail Post Office = wgpocpl.cpl

Modem Properties = modem.cpl

Note:

In Windows NT 4.0, W2K, XP and Windows 2003 – Modem properties is “telephon.cpl”

Mouse Properties = main.cpl

Multimedia Properties = mmsys.cpl

Network Properties = netcpl.cpl

Note:

In Windows NT 4.0, W2K, XP and Windows 2003 Network properties is “Ncpa.cpl”

Password Properties = password.cpl

Power Options = powercfg.cpl

Regional Settings = intl.cpl

Sound Properties = mmsys.cpl

System Properties = sysdm.cpl

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Registry Tweak This Will Hide All The Drives In My Computer..

Type “Regedit” In Run.
Search For The Key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it
“NoDrives”. Now modify it’s value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal)
Now press F5 to refresh.

When you click on My Computer, no drives
will be shown.

To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply
delete this DWORD item.

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Specified Drive to hide

Start->Run–>write there gpedit.msc–>user Configuration–>

Administrative Templates–>Windows Component–>Windows Explorer
then right click on “Hide These Specified Drive In my Computer”

then click on “properties”then change to “Enabled” then “OK”…..

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Increase Internet Bandwidth by 20%
Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. Mcrosoft reserve 20% of your available

bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and

interrogating your machine etc..)

Here’s how to get it back:

Click Start–>Run–>type “gpedit.msc” without the ”

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

Local Computer Policy–>Computer Configuration–>

Administrative Templates–>Network–>QOS Packet Scheduler–>

Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured,

but the truth is under the ‘Explain’ tab :

“By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the

bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.

This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.
works on XP Pro, and 2003. Other OS not tested.

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Block websites without any software

block webSites without any Softwares !!
Steps

1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
2] Find the file named “HOSTS”
3] Open it in notepad
4] Under “127.0.0.1 localhost” Add 127.0.0.2 www.orkut.com ,
and that site will no longer be accessable.
5] Done!

example :

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 www.orkut.com

www.orkut.com is now unaccessable
For every site after that you want to add, just add “1” to the
last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and then the addy like before.

IE:
127.0.0.3 www.yahoo.com
127.0.0.4 www.msn.com
127.0.0.5 www.google.com

This also works with banner sites, just find the host name of the server
with the banners and do the same thing with that addy.

Hoep this small tutorial could keep you going in simple way of blocking websites
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Change ur processor name

Trick – SHOW YOUR PC PENTIUM 5 OR MORE

GO TO START>RUN>TYPE REGEDIT>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > HARDWARE > DISCRIPTION > SYSTEM > CENTRAL PROCESSOR >

ON RIGHT HAND SIDE RIGHT CLICK ON PROCESSOR NAME AND STRING AND THE CLICK ON

MODIFY AND WRITE WHAT EVER YOU WANT

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Create A Hidden User Account